The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26


up stream, aud that one man alone
with his boat couldn't possiblymake it.
| formed partnership with one of the
boys who accompanied me down from
Fort Reliance, and together we start
ed. But a few hours on the water
told US that we had undertaken big
task, and that rowing up was out of
the question, SO we cut some long
poles and commenced polling up. At
| times we would have to walk along
the bank, one pulling on a rope at
tached to the boat, and tie other with
the pole pushing the boat off shore.
The first day we covered about eight
miles of the distance, when we pitched
camp for supper and rest. Early next
morning | struck up stream with pan
and shovel in hand on a prospecting
tour. and soon finding a small gravel
bar then and there washed out my
first pan of dirt on the Yukon. And
| was not little surprised at the re-
suit. Ny first pan yielded fully four
cents of coarse gold. / then began to
look around and washed out several
more pans of gravel, sometimes get
ting more and sometimes less, but |
soon found that not enough of the bar
was uncovered to pay US to stop there,
and that great deal of work would
have 10 l,e done before any amount of
gravel could be washed. So we again
pulled up stream. where we had heard
the gravel yielded as high AS So to the
pan in coarse gold. We polled. pull
ed and prospcctcd for u period IA
days when we
STRUCK BAR
About 60 miles up from the mouth
that we thought would pay us to camp
with for short time at least. We
staked off 300 feet, As allowed by the
miners regulations, and set IN work
making rocker. Meanwhile | had
spcn, some time prospecting our little
bonanza. | found We had u point of
gravel exposed about 2jxl0O feet, and
| found that it panned all the way
from lhrre cents up To 81 - to the
pan. In one place, just behind big
bowlder, | obtained Us high as SO TO
the pan, and in this were several mug
gets from q cents to 81 80 in value. OF
caarse We rocked here first, but clean
ed il out in three days. the two of us
having rocked ont in that time about
S23O. Behind this bowlder we cleaned
il out To frozen gravel, which resist
ed all efforts on our part ta mine with
pick and shovel. That there was
plenty of pay IN this frozen gravel, !
have not "A doubt, rs what we were
able to pick panned out we'll. We
then moved our rocker down to the
lower end of the bar where we COM
menced operations, taking the gravel
FROM the waters edge first, and work
ing it down until the water got too
deep tn he taken out any longer. In
this way we worked it out about four
feet back from the waters edge. where
THE FROZEN GRAVEL
Came in. II yielded from IS to $11
per day apiece, and when we could
strike a bOwlder, the gravel behind II
would always be much richer, and we
would take out much more, ewing To
the size of the bowder and the amount
of gravel behind it. 1t took us 36
days TO work out this bar back 10 the
frozen gravel, and when we counted
IN we found that we had something
over $500 apiece. We then moved
our rocker up to the bowlder where
we first commenced operations, think
ing that by burning off the moss We
could thaw out and work some of the
gravel. The moss was quite dry on
top aud burned we'll down to depth
of several inches, but would not burn
down the entire depth to the gravel,
which was about two feet. We found
that we could not hope to accomplish
anything in one season this way, and
that we would either have to pick it
out or hunt new diggings. So we
again tackled it with the pick. We
found that the sun, since we had left
it exposed had somewhat thawed out
the face, and we picked out enough
gravel to run the rocker for another
day. But beyond this it was ne go;
| it was
AS HARD AS ROCK,
And if there had been millions in that
bank we could not have done other
wise than leave it. At any rate the